German adjective · CEFR B2
effizient
Meaning in English: efficient
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Die neue Heizung arbeitet sehr effizient.
The new heating system works very efficiently.
How common is effizient?
effizient is number 4,917 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 62,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,913sexuellesexual
- 4,914der Schulleiterhead teacher, principal
- 4,915erfordernto require, to demand
- 4,916größterbiggest, greatest
- 4,917effizientefficient
- 4,918zitiertquoted, cited
- 4,919der Betrachtconsideration (in Betracht)
- 4,920betrieblichencompany, in-house, operational
- 4,921verlässtleaves
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,917
- The most common German adjectives#921
- German B2 vocabulary#1,215
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.